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WATCH Cruz Destroy The Media’s ‘Islamophobia’ Nonsense

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) faced an onslaught of smears of “Islamophobia” from the leftist media hacks at CBS News over his proposal to patrol Muslim communities. Cruz dismantled each attack lobbed at him.

On Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose attempted to ambush Cruz by playing a clip of New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton deriding Cruz for not knowing “what the hell he’s talking about.” But Cruz was ready.

“It’s not surprising that the Democratic political henchmen of Mayor [Bill] de Blasio are coming after me and that is under the instructions of Mayor de Blasio,” Cruz responded.

Rose tried to salvage the failed line of attack by asking that if there was no way that Bratton simply thought Cruz’s proposal was bad policy, which Cruz said would be “striking.”

“Yesterday we saw a horrific terror attack in Brussels and our prayers this morning are with the families of those murdered, of those wounded,” Cruz said. “But what is important is that was not a lone wolf, it wasn’t an isolated attack. It was radical Islamic terrorism. It was ISIS that has declared jihad, that is waging war on us. And President [Barack] Obama, Hillary Clinton and sadly Mayor de Blasio, the elected Democrats, are so bound up by political correctness they refuse to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and they refuse to be serious in defeating it.”

Cruz pointed out that his proposal isn’t all that different from Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s surveillance program as well as the police patrolling neighborhoods overrun by gangs. Co-host Norah O’Donnell tried to argue that Bloomberg’s program was ineffective, but Cruz wasn’t having any of it.

“It is true that the de Blasio political henchmen say that,” Cruz said. “It’s also true that the NYPD said it provided valuable intelligence, and I’ll tell you as I travel the city of New York, as I travel the country, police officers over and over again stop me and they say, ‘Thank you for standing up and having my back.'”

O’Donnell then became unhinged and attempted to argue that there were no Muslim communities in the U.S. like there are in Europe and challenged Cruz to name any that exist in the country. To O’Donnell’s dismay, Cruz was prepared.

“You have communities, for example, in Minnesota,” Cruz said. “You have communities in Michigan with heavy concentration [of Muslims] and you have incidences of radical Imams preaching jihadism, preaching Islamism.”

Co-host Gayle King took her turn in trying to trip up Cruz, as she made the absurd assertion that Cruz was playing into ISIS’s hands with his proposal since he’s supposedly smearing all Muslims.

“People are fed up with the political correctness of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, where following the Paris attacks, following San Benardino and no doubt following Brussels, President Obama goes on TV. He will not say ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ Instead, he lectures Americans on ‘Islamophobia.’ Enough is enough.”

Cruz then went on to make the key distinction between Islam and Islamism.

“Islamism commands that you either murder the infidels or forcibly convert them,” Cruz said. “You wage jihad. And here’s the consequence of President Obama and Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio refusing to acknowledge what we’re fighting: You end up with policies that don’t keep us safe.”

Cruz listed Obama and Clinton’s support for bringing in Syrian refugees as an example of a policy that isn’t keeping America safe since ISIS has said they will use the program to infiltrate the country.

(h/t: Steven Crowder)

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